01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Sylheti Nagri
Traditional script for the Sylheti language of Sylhet, Bangladesh and Assam, India.
Traditional script for the Sylheti language of Sylhet, Bangladesh and Assam, India. Though mainly written in Bengali script today, the British Bangladeshi diaspora (~500,000 people) is running a revival movement for cultural identity. Medieval Sufi Islamic poets' confessions of faith survive in this script. Added to Unicode in 2009.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Left to Right (LTR)
Left to right (LTR)
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System
Abugida
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
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07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Phylogeny
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH